The remnants of Hurricane Gustav moved through Louisiana and Arkansas causing gusty winds to spread across east Texas.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
The remnants of Hurricane Gustav moved through Louisiana and Arkansas causing gusty winds to spread across east Texas.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 2, 4:54 PM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 554 PM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 .AVIATION... 554 PM CDT. CENTER OF T.D. GUSTAV LOCATED BETWEEN SHREVEPORT AND TEXARKANA AT 22Z AND MOVING NORTHWEST 7 KT. CUMULUS FIELD ACROSS KDFW TRACON IS THINNING AND CONVECTION HAS MOVED FURTHER WEST OF THE TAF SITES FOR THE EVENING. ALL CONVECTION OVERNIGHT SHOULD REMAIN CLOSE TO THE CENTER OF GUSTAV...THEN EXPAND OUTWARD WEDNESDAY MIDDAY AND AFTERNOON. INCLUDED VCSH FOR THE KDFW TRACON WEDNESDAY THE AFTERNOON. AS FOR CIGS...EXPECT VFR CIGS THIS EVENING THROUGH MIDNIGHT KDFW TRACON AND VFR THROUGH WEDNESDAY FOR KACT. WILL TREND KDFW TRACON TO BKN035 09-17Z WITH TEMPO BKN020-030 11-15Z. SHOULD SEE VFR CIGS BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WINDS WILL REMAIN CYCLONIC THROUGH THIS TAF CYCLE. SPEED VARIATION WILL BE OBSERVED OVERNIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. SOMETIMES RUNNING STRONG AND GUSTY...AND NOT SO STRONG AT OTHER TIMES. FOR THE MOST PART EXPECT NW WINDS 15G25KT ACROSS THE KDFW TRACON AND 13G24KT FOR KACT. 75 && .DISCUSSION... 400 PM CDT. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE CENTER OF GUSTAV WILL REMAIN WELL EAST OF THE CWA...SKIRTING THE EASTERN BORDER OF TEXAS NORTH OF SHREVEPORT. RAIN HAS BEEN FAIRLY CONSISTENT IN NORTHEAST COUNTIES OF FWD CWA...BUT RATES HAVE BEEN GENERALLY LESS THAN 1/4 INCH PER HOUR. RAIN LIKELY TO CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY... BUT TOTALS SHOULD BE INSUFFICIENT FOR FLASH FLOODING. DAYTIME HEATING HAS ALLOWED CONVECTION TO EXPAND IN AREAL COVERAGE TOWARD AND EVEN WEST OF I-35. AFTER SUNSET...PRECIPITATION WILL BE CONFINED TO AREAS CLOSER TO CENTER. RAIN-COOLED AIR COUPLED WITH MINIMAL INSOLATION HAS MAINTAINED NEGLIGIBLE INSTABILITY...THUS THUNDER IS UNLIKELY. HAVE INCLUDED ONLY SHOWERS FOR THE DURATION OF THE RAIN EVENT...WHICH WILL WIND DOWN IN LESS THAN 48 HOURS. REMARKABLY MILD HIGH TEMPS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY WITH NORTH WINDS...PERSISTENT CLOUDCOVER...AND CONTINUING RAIN CHANCES. NORTHERLY FLOW WILL BE PERSISTENT AT THE SURFACE...WITH SOME PLEASANT OVERNIGHT/MORNING TEMPERATURES THE NEXT FEW DAYS. HOWEVER...MID-LEVEL RIDGING IS LIKELY TO RETURN DURING THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. THE SUMMER OF 2008 IS NOT OVER YET. 25 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 72 82 70 89 69 / 40 40 10 10 0 WACO, TX 71 86 68 92 66 / 20 20 10 10 0 PARIS, TX 70 78 68 84 66 / 70 70 50 20 5 DENTON, TX 70 81 68 88 65 / 40 40 20 10 0 MCKINNEY, TX 71 81 69 87 64 / 50 50 30 10 0 DALLAS, TX 72 82 70 89 69 / 40 40 20 10 0 TERRELL, TX 72 81 70 88 67 / 50 50 20 10 0 CORSICANA, TX 73 83 70 91 67 / 40 40 10 10 0 TEMPLE, TX 72 90 68 92 67 / 20 20 10 10 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 05/25
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 632 PM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-032345- MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN- HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS- ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL- JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-NAVARRO- FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-LIMESTONE- LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON- 632 PM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tropical depression. Local standard time, as filed.
Sustained wind speeds over 20 MPH with gusts as high as 40 MPH were recorded in Sherman-Denison as T.D. Gustav passed to the east. Large limbs broke and fell onto power lines, causing power outages.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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